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Wed. Powerball lottery jackpot jumps to $700 millionNews Story
2nd-largest lottery jackpot the world has ever seen! Cash value nearly half-billion dollars By Todd Northrop Spurred on by a surge of lottery ticket sales, the Multi-State Lottery Association (MUSL) has raised the official estimate for Wednesday's Powerball drawing to $700 million. With a new lump-sum cash estimate of $443.3 million, a single-ticket winner of the drawing would receive nearly a half-billion dollars in cash. And it may not stop there. Players should watch for fur
Aug 22, 2017, 12:51 pm - Todd - Lottery News

UK couple waits for house to be painted, then claims £32.5M lottery jackpotNews Story
A Cambridgeshire couple who won 32.5 million (US$45.5 million) on the lottery have been identified and they've revealed the bizarre reason they carried the winning ticket around for a week before claiming the massive windfall. Retired schoolteacher Gerry Cannings, 63, and his wife Lisa, 48, were aware they had picked the winning numbers the morning after the draw but didn't celebrate until days later as their house was being decorated. The couple, from Peterborough, wanted to wait until th
Feb 25, 2016, 7:47 am - Todd - Lottery News

Jury: Lottery winner must pay ex-boyfriend part of winningsNews Story
A jury Thursday ruled that a former middle school teacher who won a $1 million lottery jackpot must pay $291,000 to her former sweetheart, who testified that he handed her the money to buy the winning ticket. Lynn Poirier, 62, claimed the prize in 2007. Her live-in boyfriend, Howard Browning, 62, sued her a few months later, claiming they had a long-standing agreement: If one of them won a major lottery prize, they'd split it 50-50. But Poirier gave jurors a very different version of event
Feb 5, 2016, 12:55 pm - Todd - Lottery News

$1.5 BILLION: Wednesday Powerball record jackpot still risingNews Story
Cash value nearly $1 billion By Todd Northrop Is there anything happening this week that isn't Powerball? Apparently not, because it seems that everyone in the US is buying Powerball tickets at a frantic pace, forcing officials at the Multi-State Lottery Association (MUSL) to once again raise the Wednesday Powerball jackpot estimate by another $100 million to $1.5 billion. The cash value of the jackpot is now raised to $930 million. By the time the drawing rolls around Wednesday nigh
Jan 12, 2016, 11:35 am - Todd - Lottery News

$900 MILLION: Powerball lottery jackpot to create unimaginable wealthNews Story
Record Powerball jackpot could crown the first lottery billionaire By Todd Northrop For the third time in three days, the multi-state Powerball lottery jackpot has been raised to levels only dreamed about. What if one person becomes a billionaire from a $2 lottery ticket? That's certainly a potential scenario tonight, when the numbers are drawn for the biggest lottery jackpot the world has ever seen. Powerball offers two jackpot payment options: the $900 million jackpot prize paid ov
Jan 9, 2016, 11:27 am - Todd - Lottery News

$800 MILLION: Powerball lottery jackpot approaches billion-dollar rangeNews Story
Cash value is a half-billion dollars By Todd Northrop This is the lottery jackpot every lottery player has been waiting for! Reaching into uncharted stratospheric heights, the Saturday Powerball jackpot is by far the largest lottery jackpot the world has ever seen, and is now also the largest lump-sum cash jackpot in world history. Just a day after the jackpot was raised to $700 million, the Multi-State Lottery Association (MUSL) has once again raised the official Powerball jackpot e
Jan 8, 2016, 11:32 am - Todd - Lottery News

Discovery - New PA Raffle Game ChangeReply
The odds are good. Cash 5 here in PA used to have those odds until some knucklehead thought it would be better to add more numbers hence increasing the odds by millions. The raffle isn't as exciting as it once was for me, it's hum-drum now and with the offering at 4 times per year, it's just another game they're hoping to profit from by holding it more often. PA already has too much going. The average person can't or just plain doesn't want to play everything available: Cash 5
Sep 15, 2015, 8:57 am - dr65 - Lottery Discussion Forum

A state lottery could help Alabama get its financial house in orderNews Story
Fifty years ago, lotteries were illegal in every state, but they have proven so lucrative and politically irresistible that 44 states have since started selling tickets to the lottery. In 2013, state-run lotteries brought in $62 billion, which amounts to $257 in sales to every adult in the nation. Six stubborn holdouts remain. Alaska and Hawaii are isolated enough that they do not feel pressured by sales from their neighbors. Nevada and Mississippi have gambling lobbies that don't want a stat
Apr 20, 2015, 9:15 pm - Todd - Lottery News

New travel questions crop up in Ark. Lottery director's final days in officeNews Story
Outgoing Arkansas Lottery Director Ernie Passailaigue gave his last scheduled report to state lawmakers today, as the lottery's internal auditor said new questions have arisen about Passailaigue's travel reimbursements. Michael Hyde told the legislative committee that oversees the lottery today that he has referred to the Division of Legislative Audit a few things that came up. It was of a nature that I felt like it needed to be investigated, he said. Hyde mentioned the matter in answ
Oct 3, 2011, 1:24 am - Todd - Lottery News

Post your scratch ticket resultsReply
Hi Matt! I know, I had lost some interest in posting the scratch off ticket results. I suspected for awhile that they were playing with the wins...or had previously timed the wins to come to this point just in time for the raffle - I'm sure they tinker with the random prospect of things, it's not just a 'throw them into the mix and see what happens'...I play a lot of tickets and have a lot of wins, that's the way it goes. There have been $100's here and there but NOWHERE near the amo
Jun 15, 2011, 3:22 pm - dr65 - Instant ("Scratch-Off") Games Forum